FC6 Power off not working any more

Les hlhowell at pacbell.net
Sat Nov 18 19:24:39 UTC 2006


On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 09:18 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 22:06 +0100, antonio montagnani wrote:
> > 2006/11/16, Gérard Milmeister <gemi at bluewin.ch>:
> > > On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 13:02 -0500, Beartooth wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 15:37:54 +0100, antonio montagnani wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > After I upgraded to FC6 when I stop the computer, all procedure is
> > > > > completed but power is still on.
> > > > > FC6 is fully updated with latest packages and kernel
> > > > > Where to look at?
> > > What is your kernel command line.
> > > I had acpi=off on my FC-5 kernel, and had to remove it after upgrading
> > > to FC-6 for poweroff to work.
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> > I am not sure (as the machine is sitting in my office that happily I
> > will not see untill next monday) but I have no acpi=off in my
> > grub.conf file.
> > 
> > 
> This is frustrating. I have been complaining about this behavior on one of my machines since the 
> week FC6 arrived. No one seemed to be able to explain this and I stopped complaining
> when no one else seemed to report this behavior. Maybe not enough FC6 had been installed.
> In my case it is an old machine (2000). Could that be a precipitating factor?
> I have updated the BIOS and I have no acpi=off in the kernel line.
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> 
Hi, Aaron,
I also have the problem.  But I am using an older HP system with a
celeron, so I kind of expect that it won't do everything.  It would be
nice if it would shutdown completely, because I have accidently left the
box on overnight when I didn't intend to do so.

Regards,
Les H




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